Among the many questions that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez intends to answer in MotoGP this season is💫 whet🏅her his level as an athlete has started to drop.

The eight-time world champion sensationally walked out of a big-money Honda 🧔contract to join his brother atꦗ the satellite Gresini team this season, where he will ride a year-old version of the title-winning Ducati Desmosedici.

“My target ✅is to try to feel competitive again, then I’ll smile and have the motivation to push and keep going,” Marquez said on the eve 🎉of this weekend’s Qatar season opener.

“Expectations are super high, bu♐t I 𒅌know what I’ve been through in the last four years. I need time. No rush. 

"I don't pretend to win fr꧅om the beginning because it would be a huge mistake, especially because I didn’t win a single race. 

"And now I arrive in a manuf🅰acturer where there are two-three guys, especiall💫y Pecco, Martin and Bastianini, that are riding this bike super fast, super good.

"I need to learn from them and adapt.”

But the 31-year-old then admitted: “We cannot forget that ever✅y athlete has his moment and then starts to drop. Then you need to work harder and harder to keep flat.

"Young guys arrive, like Fabio in his f🍸irst year, now Pedro, Pecco, Martin that are riding faster. So I need to learn from the younger riders and try to keep that level as long as possible.”

Pressed on whether he thin🃏ks that inevitable performance drop might have already started, Marquez replied:

“I will understand this year. Last year,🎀 I was suffering but even like this, I was the first Honda. During seven years I won six championships and🦩 one year was third.

“2020 changed my life. Since then, it🤡’s been a nightmare. A very difficult four years. And now I intend to answer many questions to myself.

“For that reason I need time. I don’t need to answer all the 🌞questions in the first race. I need to go step-by-step. Like I did in the pre-season. If some days I finished 14th, no panic.

“Just what I want to do is feel cܫompetitive again. But that doesn’t mean winning the championship, it means fighting for the top 5-6 positions.

“This is what I want, but not straight away in the first race. You cannot [build] a house f🎀rom the top.”

As such, and despite finishing a close fourth fa🎀stest at the recent Qatar test, Marquez pla♐yed down his chances of an upset this weekend.

“I feel comfortable but not ready to fight for the podium, not ready to fight f🌸or the victory,"ꦫ he said. "Step-by-step we need to create a base and try to understand during the weekends where we are.”

The Gresini team has won the last two Qat🌺ar Grands Prixꦐ courtesy of former riders Enea Bastianini (2022) and Fabio di Giannantonio (2023).

Free pract🦋ice for t🦩he 2024 event starts on Friday afternoon.